What To Do With Short Stories?
 

Hello everyone, I just have a question for any fellow writers on the site. I am in the process of editing a short story I have created and am wondering what exactly to do with it. Should I sell it to a short story magazine, and if so what are some good magazines to sell to? And also once I sell the rights to a magazine will I ever be able to publish a collection in an anthology?

Well, asking what magazine to sell it to is a hard question to answer because we know nothing about your story. A market that buys splatterpunk fiction is not going to be interested in your new paranormal romance.

These days magazine and anthology markets a pretty much the same. Good resources for finding market sources are:

http://www.duotrope.com

http://www.ralan.com

I use those daily, but in actuality, every sale I've made has been from a facebook contact.

Both specialize in the speculative ficrion market. As to what rights you will retain for placing your story for the secondary market, it varies from publisher to publisher, so be sure to read their submission guidelines carefully.

Good luck.

Thanks a lot. Yeah I forgot to mention my story is kind of a thriller with a tinge of horror in it.

You could compile them then self publish?

Doesn't that cost a good chunk of cash though compared to other methods? I don't know much about this so I could easily be wrong.

You are completely wrong. Publishing through Amazon or Barnes & Noble is absolutely free. While there are some advantages to self-publishing, there are also a lot of drawbacks.

Oh wow that's great because I have a Barnes & Noble in my vicinity. Thanks a lot!

I think Lee means you can publish through B&N online, but these shoppes have been known to sell local authors as well.

Yes, that's correct. With B&N, you can only publish ebooks, but with Amazon, you can actually self-publish print on demand books, with no capital outlay.